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Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...
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We designed four observational learning experiments to identify the key channels that, along with Bayes …-rational inferences, drive herd behavior. In Experiment 1, unobserved, whose actions remain private, learn from the public actions made in … actions, but they overweight their low quality signals relative to public information. Experiments 2-4 reveal that non …
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than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when …
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experiment of self-serving deceptive behavior which combines two exogenously varied levels of reflection time with a cognition …
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